I’m running the opening leg…look for her post tomorrow! The same people who put on the annual Easter Parade in which I have twice starred as Lead Traumatizer do a Halloween processional featuring kids and their handlers decked out in trick-or-treat finery.

I began to wonder whether I was qualified for the job, which I had assumed required nothing more than a set of working eyeballs.

Would they expect me, for example, to be able to differentiate between homemade and store-bought costumes without inspecting for “made in China” labels?

Sometimes you can look at a set and figure out right away if it’s going to be easy to light or not.

Generally, the smaller the set, the worse things go for everyone.

The grips managed to drill some holes for us, but mostly we used a metric ton of tape and more time than we should have taken to do a fairly simple lighting set-up.